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Show STODMEISTER GIVEN ORDERS TO REPORT FOR SEA DUTY - E. F. Stodtmeister, connected with the local navy recruiting station, has received orders to be ready to report for sea duty January 1. The order is issued from the navy department at Washington. Stodtmeister has befen in Ogden for the last three years doing recruiting duty. He has been In the navy service for the last nineteen years, having enlisted en-listed the first time during May, 1898, at Omaha, Neb. Simultaneous with the announcement announce-ment that Stodtmeister has received orders to report for active service, announcement an-nouncement also was made today by Lieutenant W. L. Nicholas, In charge of the local recruiting station, that , R. C. Williams and Ed Pierce, Ogden . boys, have been notified to be ready to depart for the training aviation camp at San Diego. Orders for their departure are expected at any time. Enlistments took a heavy slump at the navy recruiting station today only two volunteering as compared with fourteen yesterday. The "honor roll" was as follows: James Terry, 22, farmer, Colorado Springs, Colo., and Fred W. Keeter, 22, farmer, Ogden. Og-den. Orders reecived this morning by Lieutenant Nicholas stale that all previous pre-vious service men, of twenty years' experience, will be assigned to recruit-j recruit-j ing servico or shore duty. They will ! make places for the younger men nowj in active service. j |